Times Sunday #5046

2023-02-12

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1a

Shortened, like everything in numbers (7)

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5a

Cat straddling small horseShetland, perhaps (7)

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9a

Of course, these are essential (6,3,6)

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10a

Close deal over a drink (8)

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11a

Being a judge is difficult (6)

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13a

One bird in each valley? Not quite (5)

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15a

Boring book about paintings (8)

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17a

I came and did bad thing for poor US people (8)

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18a

Poem I would finish in twenty lines (5)

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20a

Big cheese sandwich on chorizo wraps (6)

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21a

Wrong answer is "consecrates" (6,2)

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24a

Become distressed? (4,4,4,3)

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25a

One prays to see article on page (7)

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26a

Pounds I applied to allowance (7)

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Down

1d

Name on web for an aperitif (8)

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2d

One cuts decoration off (5)

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3d

Find a way to get over or avoid pettiness? (4,3,4,4)

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4d

Corrupt deal the result of this? (4,6)

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5d

Handsome cartoonist (4)

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6d

It takes time to become such a thief (15)

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7d

Presumably, I'm any singing game (4,2,3)

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8d

1,000 Iron Age axes on view? Not really (6)

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12d

Use lights to see what could be picked up (6-4)

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14d

Fruit garden oddly busy (9)

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16d

Idiot has not served up seafood (8)

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19d

Pen St (4,2)

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22d

I think America should return land to its natives (5)

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23d

European in much anxiety (4)

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